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BAG HOLDER. No.- 250,315. Patented Nov. 29,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VAN BUREN WHEAT, OF ORLEANS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE L. PRICE, OF PHELPS, NEW YORK.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,315, dated November 29, 1881. Application filed October 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, VAN BUREN WHEAT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orleans, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Truck bag-holders are in general use among farmers and in mills, for bagging grain, the bag being suspended to a hopper secured to the truck in such manner as to hold the bag open while being filled, and allow of its detachment from the hopper when filled.

My improvement relates specifically to the means by which the bag is fastened to the hopper in being filled. It is important that such fastening shall hold the bag secure while being filled, and be easily and quickly fastened and unfastened from the hopper. For this purpose I use a pin-arm pivoted to the hopper and adapted to pin the lapped edges of the mouth of the bag over a fixed screw or rivet head in said hopper, the pin so entering the lapped edges behind the screw-head as to be supported by said screw under the weight of the bag being filled.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a truck bag-holder, showing the bag secured to the hopper of said truck; Fig. 2, a front view thereof, showing the pin-arm as piercing and fastening the bag behind and over the screwhead; Fig. 3, a similar view, showing the bag partially wrapped around and over the screwhead and the pin-arm raised; and Fig. 4, a front view of the hopper and the pivoted pinarm, the dotted lines showing the latter in position behind the fixed screw to pin the bag over the head of the screw; and Fig. 5, the pin-arm in its fastening relation to the screw.

The truck is preferably constructed as shown, having a bed-frame, A A, a standard, 0, supporting the hopper or bag-holder, D, proper, and truck-wheels K, the bed-frame supporting the standard in proper position for holding the bag while being filled, and the wheels K serving to allow the bag to be carried upon the truck to the desired place. The bag-holder D, however, may be fixed at any convenient place for bagging grain or feed under a spout or chute.

The hopper or bag-holder D is provided with screws or rivets b, inserted around its lower edge at suitable distances apart, upon which the bag is hung or suspended to be filled from said hop- 5 5 per. The device for fastening the bag to these fixed screws consists of a pin-arm, c, pivoted preferably to the front of the bag-holder, and having the fastening-pin d at its free end and projecting down ward therefrom in such relation to the middle screw as to pass close behind it in pinning the bag. The pin used is a common pegging-awl driven into the end of the arm, and when the arm is pressed down the pin pierces the lapped parts of the mouth of the bag over the screw-head, and thus makes a perfectly secure fastening, as shown in Fig. 2.

In fastening the bag, the mouth is first stretched over the screw or rivet heads and wound round or lapped over the front middle screw, as shown in Fig. 3, the other part of the edge or mouth being then turned over the lapped part and the pin pressed down, piercing these lapped and wound bag parts close behind and over the screw-head, holding the bag secure. The fastening is released by raising the pin-arm. The first lap of the bag-edge is made from the under side and drawn back over the screw, and the second lap is placed over the first, and when pinned, as described, the weight bears the pin against the shank of the screw or rivet, and thus binds the bag to the holding-screws without breaking or bending the pin. This manner of pinning the bag to the holder avoids the liability of the bag to tear at the mouth, as the pin-arm has no stretching action upon the bag. Any size or quality of bag maybe used with this fastening pin-arm.

I claim The combination of thehopper or hag-holder, provided with screws or rivets 11 around its lower part, witha pin-arm, 0d, pivoted to said holder, the pin d projecting downward from said arm and in such relation to one of said screw-heads as to pass behind and pin the bag over it.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 100 nesses.

VAN BUREN WHEAT.

Witnesses:

L. R. LOMBARD, JAMES W. MOORE. 

